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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
RELIGIOUS READING.
Count the Merciea.

Count the mercies! count the merc.esl
Number all tie gifts OF love;
Keep faithful daily record
OF the mercies from above.
Look at all the lovely green spots
In life's weary desert way;
Think how many cooling fountains
Cheer our fainting hearts each day.
Count the merc:es! count the mercies!
SEQ them strewn along our way.
Count the mercies, though the trials
Seem to number more each day;
Count the trials, too, as mercies,
Add them to the grand array.
Trials are Gods richest blessings,
Sent to prompt Our upward fight;
As the eagles nest-alf broken
Makes them fly to loftier height,
Count them merc.es! count them merc:es!
That bring Heaven wi hin out sight
Let US number all our jewels,
Let US estimate their worth;
Let us thank the gracious Giver, .-
Stlesing blessings DER the earth;
Let our hearts o'erfiow with gladness,
Let us tell the wonders DER,
Till our multiply ing treasures
Seem countless, hoardles store.
Then let praises, grateful praises.
Be our language evermore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02
Poor PapaW

The ether evening the little daughter
of rich man was paying visit at a
nciehbor's and the respective mothers
were talking of physical ailments and
their remedies. After while the little
girl saw an opportunity to make re-
mark.
My pana," she said, ''always drinks
whisky when lie is sick
Then she stopped for q minute, her
eyes softcncd and saddened, and she
continued slowly:
"And poor papa IS sick nearly all the
time."-Youth's Temperance Banner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

The SIM estimates that the people OF
New York drink 6,OOO,O 900 barrels of
beer annually. The dealers pay 40
per barrel, and deal it out at, at least, 100
per cent profit. At that rate the beer
bill of the city is 7G,sOO, 900 year.
Think of it, you who drink of it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-02

Five years afterward Francia Randolph
married the Englishman, Frederick
I.cigh-he who had said she had no soul.
She told him she had no love to give him
or any other man.
II would rathcy have your liberation
than any other woman's love-" ne pro-
tested.
But she was not glad at his answer,
for it seemed indeed as if she had lost
the power to feel
But as the years passed her tender
affection for her husband became a
wonderful thing. If she had lost love.
she had gained broader virtue.
Who is it that has said: "Love is best
of all" How little he knew!-Frank
Jcslie's
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
To Crow strawperries.

The main points involved in the success
ful culture of this fruit, as recognized by
our best cultivators, are as follows:
l. Prepare the grodnd by deep blowing
and suosoiling; apply g dressing of rotted
manure equal to twenty cords per acre
spread it over the ground and mix with the
surface soil by repeated and thorough dis
Indignation with a harrow. The best crops
are produced on strong, lpany soils; if
somewhat clayey 1t will be all the better,
provided il is drained.
?. Give the plants plerty of space. The
rows should not be less lsn thirty inches
apart, and the plants about half that dis
lance between each other in the rows.
3. Remove al runners as they appear,
and keep the surface well pulverizsd and
clean during the summer after the crop has
been gathered in old plantations-the same
cleanly treatment applying to newly set
out plants. If young plants are wanted,
keep portion OF the plantation for the
purpose.
4 Cover the plants IN winter, after the
freezing weather sets in, with stra v,
leaves, or other similar material, as a par
tial protection from injury by frosts
5. Do not disturb the roots by any pro-
cess Of cultivation from the mouth of Sep
temoer until after the crop has been gath
cred.
Make new plantation every year,
and destroy the old plants after they have
produced second crop.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Birch and Backus Make the Fun.

Virginia City Letter to Philadelphia Press
Backus and Birch were very funny, and
long before thew sailed for New York and
opened the San Francisco MInstrels, in
conjunction with Barnard and Wambold,
their reputation had preceded them, and
the old forty miners" and Others who had
been on the Pacific Coast flocked to their
little hall on Broadway, between Prince
and Houston streets. Barnard, the mid
die man of the company, was a practicing
attorney on the Pacific Coast, a genial,
whole-souled fellow, full of repartee, an
excellent conversstionalist, and with full,
rich baritone voice helped these two in
imitable end-men TO keep their audiences
in constant uproar.
The mouths of Backus and Birch were
termed by old CaliforniaDs California
Cuffs" Unlike many OF the late day min
strel companies, they seldom reh sarsed
their gags" but invariably trusted % the
impulse OF the moment or the point I'D sar-
casms, puns and wit of Barnard an their
ability TO reply TO them. An old miner
once met Charley Backus in the baJ-room
of the "What Cheer House," then [ ne ia
NOUS inn of the Pacific coast, owl ed by
Woodward, who subsequently opened the
Woodward Garden" at the Mission, and
saluting him said; "Psrd, imbibe?" Ser
taiDly!' replied the fat boy. "Name your
root" "a sealskin wash!" reptile Backus
The bartender was puzzled; the miner
looked askance. Again the miner said: 1T
you want stomach settler boiler il right"
well, I've shouted" said Backus, ~
vociferated a sealskin wash. In plain
Anglo Saxon, / require whisky straight"
Whisky is used to wash and preserve the
sealskins. The miner saw the point, and
carried it back to Helena, Mont, where
'sealskin washes" became popular drinks.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Hindoo,s Mode of Reaping.

The Milling World tells its readers how
the Hindoo reaps with an iron blade six
inches long, an inch wide, and curved like
a sickle, costing him four cents. He
squats on his heels, culs handful, lays it
down, and without rising from his heels
waddles forward and cuts another. In
twelve days he cuts an acre, and receives
five cents a day, boarding himself. When
he wants to thrash his grain he drives a
stake in the ground, spreads his grain
around it, ties q rope to his bulls horns
and then to the stake, and drives them
around until the straw is tramped very
fine into what they call "bhoosa." This
is fed to the cattle after the wheat is sepa-
rated. Englishmen have introduced
Neutrality-suspicious. but the Hindoos will
have none of them. They think their cat
tie would not eat the straw because it
breaks it instead of tramping it fat.
They clean their wheat by holding
it up in the wind in a scoop made
of reeds, or, if the wind is not blow
ing. two Hindoos make wind by waving
a blanket, while a third dribbles the
grain from the scoop.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
A SmauDonkey.

The following description OF very small
donkey is sent by a correspondent to the
Live Stock Journal, London: 1.-THE dom
key, although eight years DID, stands only
twenty-nine inches high and is forty-one
inches long. 1t was purchased at Mont
pelier. and some few years since it at.
racted the attention of that king of clowns,
Little Sandy who Iuired it to ride and
play tricks with in the circus. 1t devel-
oped into an apt pupil, and was an espe-
cial tavorite with Sandy and his wife, but
on the death of the latter the donkey was
sold, and joined a happy family at Mar
gate. Ultimately this company was dis
banded. and the poor little animal suffered
much from hardship and neglect until Mr.
Saunders, of No. 40 Dymock street, Full
ham, purchased il as curiosity and pet
for bis househ; Id, and he takes delight in
showing it 10 spimal- overs Last week
the Prince anu Princess of Wales and the
Duke and Duchess of Westminster gave au-
dieDce TO the diminutive curiosity. which
appears 10 bear these honoTs with true
asinine complsce cy. This small donkey,
which has undergone so many changes in
so few years, is perfect little model, aud
for its size is wonderfully strong, as may
be gathered from the fact that it carried a
fourteen-stone mal round a room without
an effort.p
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Lean stock Ia the Show Ring.


An English armers' club has decided to
establish a show OF clean stock, or OF stock
in breeding condition, in connection with
the exhibition OF Eat stock. The expert
ment is worthy OF trial in this country.
The fact that Judges of live animals and
the Judges at the block differ so frequently
suggests that experiments in judging AMI
mails are needed. The breeder knows that
be can tell more about an animal If it is
merely in good condition than If it is
padded out with great masses of fat. Under
the present system the exhibitor is en-
couraged or compelled to make his animals
fat If this other class could be made,
and animals from the same herd COM
pete in both classes, exhibitors could
show animals as they keep them in
their breeding herds, and other animals
fstted and to be judged on the block. A
victory in the two classes by the same herd
would certainly be more than twice the
honor of victory of fatted animals alone.
The class can be easily limited by allowing
only those animals that are not fat in any
sense of the word, though not necessarily
very lean, to compete. This might seem
to work against what the fathers OF modern
breeding have done in the way of produc-
ing snimals of the beef and pork breeds
which fatten easily and mature early, Ten
dency to fstten is transmitted by breeding
well-fe6. fat animals.
Breeding for fairness has been carried on
too rapidly, in both the breeding of cattle
and of hogs. Strength of some special
function, as fecundity or digestion, has
been impaired. or the whole constitution
has been weakened in too many single
specimens and families of animals.
Many breeders who are no longer amateurs
have had many losses from cows failing
to produce young, where the trouble
could only be attributed to an inherited
weakness of the reproductive organs,
caused by the overlooking of long line OF
ancestry. Aside from all contagious dis
eases, it is generally rec gnized that hogs
are now more unhealthy than formerly,
and that this difference has been brought
about in great part by keeping breeding
animals in more than good condition. The
ancestors of our hogs were mainly kept By
men who fed and bred them after improved
methods. Men who have cared for
their hogs poorly, or who have prac-
ticed other than the pushing methods,
can not claim that their stock enters
very largely into the herds in their
vicinity. 1t has been the good feeder who
has sold the males ano the choice breeding
sows. Many things have gone to magnify
the animals that show well. Men have
learned TO Judge the show animal, but are
overlooking the question of how to best
| Judge the animal when in breeding condi
ton. Exhibitors of stock are public eiu.
Gators, and besides showing what kind Of
mature animal is wanted IN the markets,
they should illustrate TO the stOckmaI
what kind IF breeding animal will produces
the best mature 81 imel Men do not Sc
lect breeding stock from herds fed espe
cially for the show-riDg. 20
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
An Onion Farmer.

Mr.. I. NJ. Wakemsn, Green's Farms
Conn.,, is an example of a farmer who
minds his own business" He has raised
crops the past season, says the New En-
gland Farmer, which he expects will bring
MIN from S12, 600 TO SIS, OO0-perhaps more
Thirty acres were in onions, and the WELD
was 1000 bushels. He has been selling the
crop ever since it was harvested, but hav-
ing travelled over the principal onion-pro-
ducing sections in the country and learned
that the crop is considerably below an
average be has not forced bis own upon
the market to get rid of it. With several
large buildings fitted for storing the crop,
he is enabled to keep them as safely ss
any dealer could keep them. In one large
building, made like an ice-house, with
double walls, he has small stove for keep
ing the temperature at a safe point. By
holding his crop this year he feels pretty
sure OF making large profit above the cost
Of production. Other farmers, learning of
his success this year, will probably go into
embarrassing with a rush next year and
ind heavy market in consequences.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
FARM NOTES.

Repairing the damages of last winter de-
mands attention first.
Corn that is in the least degree affected
by rust should never be used.
Farmer are reported to consume $4,000
tons OF twine per year on reef binding har.
vesters.
Avoid strong food with your breeding
sows, as it infames the blood and produces
feverish condition.
Quiet kicking COW simply by putting
strap in her mouth and buckling il tightly
behind her horns.
If mounds were made around the base of
the trees to steady them or to keep away
mice, remove and scatter them.
Grass seed is not easily killed. and for
that reason may be sown as early as NAV
be desired. The main object should be to
select clean seed.
Branches that were broken during the
winter should be cut near to the trunk, a
smooth cut made, and covered with graft
ing wax or thick paint.
II early cucumbers, melons and summer
squashes are desired place pieces of sod
three or four inches square in shallow
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Rotation add sotI.Making.

Correspondence Country Gentleman.l
There is no doubt that tillage is a means
of adding to the strength of the soil. The
mere stirring and tumbling of the land
about does not add any enriching prop
erty to 1t, but it puts the earth in condi-
ton to receive benefits-to absorb the gases
floating in the air. l assume it to be an es-
tablished fact that the earth when in q
mellow condition does absorb the nitrogen
which is always present in the air, and
which is carried down to the earth Dy the
dews and rains. The oftener the earth is
stirred, and fresh surface is turned up,
the more of this element of plant-foOd will
be absorbed. The earth being mellow, the
rains penetrate further and carry the am
monia deeper down.
Thorough tillage also allows the roots of
plants to spread more or TO 90 deeper, or,
in other words, to reach out more in all di-
Tections after food. In a dry time more of
the dews are absorbed, and more of the
rain, and the same condition of mellow
ness allows the moisture TO come up from
below toward the surface.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

sand exposed TO frost and planted early in
the spring. Shade from hot sun, or from
alterations Of heat and cold, Seedlings
of evergreens grow slowly, and require
shading in hot weather the first year.
Soaking with hot water, to remain twenty
four hours before planting, will hasten the
termination OF hard seeds. II planted too
deep seeds will not grow. Nuts and acorns
will do an inch deep, the soil being pressed
upon them. Smaller seeds require shall
lower planting, with finely pulverized earth.
Those which require year to come up
should be shaded in summer end the
ground kept free from all weeds.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
A VESTIBULED TRAIN.
Six Coaches Joined Together. as Coz
pletely as the Rooms of a House.

Six Coaches Joined Together. as Com
pletely as the Rooms of a House.
CHICAGO, April 15.-The first trial trip
of a vestibuled train was made this after
noon on the Illinois Central Railroad. Six
coaches joined together as completely as
the rooms of a house, and containing a
large company of notable persons, were
drawn at a high speed sixty
miles down the road from Chicago,
returning this evening. The first
coach was combined baggage
room, bufet-smoker, bath and barber
shop. Next came a dining car, followed
by three sleepers. Between each pair of
coaches, on the edge of the steps, a wooden
wall or partition was erected. These par
titions were joined by rubber bagging
which yielded to every motion of the train
but with the partitions formed perfect
vestibule between each couple of coaches.
The Pullman Company are the originatOrs
of the device. This system will, it is said,
be adopted by one Of the roads to run from
Chicago to New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Life Made Miserable

BY dyspepsia is scarcely worth the living. A
capricious appetite, heartburn, pulling nerv.
Gus symptoms, increased action OF the heart
after eating, sinking in the abdomen between
meals and fistulence alter, are among the sue
cessiye indicia OF this harraSsing complaint.
Two things only are needtul tor its removal
a resort to Hostetters Stomach Bitters, and per-
sistence in its use. These remedial measures De-
ing adopted, a cure is certain. Taken imme-
diately before or after eating, this great st0m-
the natural solvent OF the food. The nervous
and bilious symptoms consequent upon chronic
indigestion disappear, as the complaint grad
ually Yields to the corrective and invigorating
influence OF the Bitters. Appetite returns, sleep
becomes more refreshing, and, as sequence,
the body is efficiently nourished. muscular
power increases. and the mind grows sanguine.
Use the Bitters for chills and fever and rheuma-
tism,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20

amply fertile 70 produce a crop
without il. As il ierments il keeps
the soil moist, which for early
potatoes set during the extreme heat of
summer is a point of the greatest impor-
lance. Moisture Is apparently greater ne
cessity in making an early potato crop
than fertility, though rich soils are apt TO
keep more moist in dry weather than those
less fertile. The most successful potato
growers partially insure their crop from
severe drought by subscribing. This requires
extra labor, but the reservoirs OF moisture
thus stored in the subsoil keep the potato
tops fresh and green long after those on
land not SUBSIDIZED have withered from
combined heat and drought. Subsoiling is
q partial protection against the potato
blight. 1t saves the plants from the sud
den extremes of temperature which prevail
in shallow soils, they being the most COM
mon causesof the blight.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
The Average Number of Egg.

There are 36j days in a year. and of that
number We must deduct 100 days as the
molting period, as it usually requires
about three months for hen to shed her
feathers and put on new ones. We then
have go days left. As no hen can lay an
egg every day, II is apparent that the hen
that lays 200 eggs in a year can not stop to
do much work in Matching; she must not
become sick, and she can not afford to lose
any time. il hen lays ten dozen eggs
year (120), she very nearly lays one every
other day, and If she does that and raises
brood che is performing good work. For
fock, where good layers and inferior lay
ers are together, We should not be disap-
pointed If the hens averaged 100 eggs each
and raised broods.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
skim MIX for Cow.

There are many times in butter da1ries
where the most profitable use Of skinned
milk is to feed it again to the cow which
has given il. The milk, after the cream
has been taken from it, retains the ele
ments that most cows find deficient in their
food. With plenty of grain the COW can
easily supply the carbon or fat-torming
elements of her milk, provided she can get
the caseine and albuminous portions which
the skim milk furnishes. 1t is the rain of
these that hurts COWS most, and they
should be supplied, If not in skim milk,
then in some other food equally nutritious
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Raatan to Death

MILWAUKEE, April 14-This afternoon
George Werner, teacher of a suburban
village shoot in the town of Williamsburg
punished a refractory pupil named Henry
Sugbusch by applying ruler sharply to
his wrists, and the latter fell back in his
seat unconscious. Surprising that the boy
had tainted he threw two buckets of water
over him, but the pupil was dead. The
teacher fed and has not been seen since.
The farmers of the community are looking
for him and threaten to lynch him, as the
boys father claims that Werner choked
him tn death
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
The Best Seeds for Propagation.

Nursery men are well aware that seeds of
the best and choicest apples are not best
for planting. All that is wanted is strong,
vigorous stock, and this is the best secured
by planting seeds of the small, inferior
varieties, TOO poor for anything except
making cider. These are generally used
not alone because they are easier 70 get,
bat because they are the best. If We wished
fruit from these seedlings only seeds from
the best favored varieties would be
planted; but as the propagation invariably
gratis these, then the kind of fruit the
seeding might bear is immaterial. The
chief draw back to this method of getting
trees is that il gives little opportunity for
valuable chance seedlings which used
sometimes to De obtained. Perhaps, how
ever, IL is as well that improved varieties
Of huits should be bred, for By selecting
seeds from the choicest kinds, and by cross
fertilization, much OF improved Stock is
bred. This will make two kinds of Seeds
each best for its respective purpose. one in
GLIDING the great bulk of seeds from in-
fericr fruit for producing stocks, and the
other the carefully selected few seeds for
the amateur and specialist seeking new va
T.erIeS
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Forest Tree seeds.

Bulletin No. l. of the Ottawa experiment
station. gives excellent directions for the
treatment OF forest tree seeds, of which the
following is briefly the substance: Seeds
which mature early, as the elm and some
naples, should be sown soon after gather
ing. Sugar maple, negundo, and ash seeds
keep over winter in a cool place. not too
dry. Acorns, nuts and stone fruits do best
il painted in autumn, or kept over IN moist
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Rich Soil for Early Potatoes.
INebraska Farmer.l

The potato requires more expenditure
or both seed and labor than any
grain crop, and il follows that it shoald
be planted on rich soil, 1t is not safe to
manure late potatoes heavily with fresh
stable manure, as its fermentation in the
soil MAKES Just the conditions in which
the potato7rot fungus fourishes; but in
rich land fror1 previous manuring this
danger does not exist. For early potatoes
the land can scarcely be made TOO rich.
The crop, If marketed before rot, in even
the most unfav0Table season, can do seri-
Gus injury. Fresh manure is often of great
benefit 70 early potatoes on land that is
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Not Contagious.
washington Critic.

Several evenings ago Major Stofah went
up on Sixteenth street TO see young lsdy
to whom he has been very attentive. She
was not visible at first, and her twelve
year-old brother entertained the Major.
After various questions the kid remarked:
You 'aint contagious are your"
why, Johnny, what do you mean by
that?' asked the Major, with an innocent
laugh of surprise.
Lob. nothin', 1 guess; only 1 heard
mother say you wasn't, cause sister had
been trying TO catch you all winter, and
she couldn't do it.r
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20
Changing Horses, Coats.

While horses are shedding their coats
they should be we'll fed and not over
worked. Ii is important TO have the new
coat on before active farm work begins. as
the changing proc ess is debilit ting. Thor
ough grooming at this time is very impof-
tant, and there should at all times be work
enough TO prevent the muscles from be-
coming weakened by disuse. Unless
horses have some work in winter the fat
they then put on will do them little good,
besides the certainty that the shoulders
will gall when the horses are put to hard
milling